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Originally Posted by SonomaLass
epstewart,
Thanks! That install script was obviously what I needed. It works great now, at least for recent files. I have a few older (2008, not that old) PDFs that I still can only read using ADE on my laptop. Reading through comments at your blog and other places, I think something must have changed regarding my Adobe account during that time. I did change computers in that time (although I kept the same hard drive), and I know that has caused some authorization problems in other places.
Fortunately none of the files I can't open is very important. The most important thing is being able to open new PDFs easily, because those are usually advance review copies that I need to read right away.
Thanks so much for your help!!
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SonomaLass,
I'm very glad to hear that you can read most of your Adobe PDFs now!
One possible workaround for the older ones has to do with the fact that an updated version of the Adobe Digital Editions application as of about Feb. 2010 changed the rules as far as encryption is concerned. It meant that a new adeptkey.der file was needed in order to decrypt newly purchased and downloaded ADE e-books. Older downloads continued to need the old adeptkey.der file for use with ineptepub and ineptpdf.
If you have no older adeptkey.der file — as would seem to be your situation — I am wondering whether a workaround might be to re-download the e-book using the latest ADE version. That re-downloaded e-book should be able to be unlocked using your current adeptkey.der file.
I say "should be able" because I have no way of testing what I'm suggesting to you. (Anyone else want to chime in here with some words of confirmation?)
Before you re-download anything, I think you ought to make a backup copy of your existing e-books, just in case something goes wrong. If you are not sure how to make a backup copy or how to re-download an e-book that you already have downloaded, then you can ask in this thread and I or someone else will supply an answer ...
Good luck with it!